Subject: Declare Variable Even and Use floor and Ceil
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 18:39:12 -0400
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Casper Thomsen
<caspert.math.aau at gmail.com>wrote:
> (%i2) declare(o,odd)$ floor(o/2);
> I would expect Maxima to do
> (%w1) (o-1)/2
> but Maxima answers simply
> (%o2) floor(o/2)
>
This would be easy enough to add to the simplifier....
> Likewise, I would expect
> (%i3) ceil(e/2); ceil(o/2);
> to give
> (%w3) e/2
>
The ceiling function is called 'ceiling' in Maxima, not 'ceil'.
ceiling(e/2) correctly gives e/2.
-s